Keyboard Shortcuts
Summary - This is part 2 of a course I teach at a local soup kitchen. Here, we will only cover keyboard shortcuts.
Summary: This is part 2 of a course I teach. Learn more about it. Since this part of the course was mostly hands-on, we’re only going the post the information that could be useful to somewhat-savvy computer users. Here, we will only cover keyboard shortcuts.
Selecting icons from a menu bar in a computer folder, a program like MS Word, Google Documents or your Internet browser can become time-consuming. To speed things up, you can use keyboard shortcuts instead.
Shortcuts are also helpful to remember because some menu icons may not be available for a particular program because a previous user may have hidden them. When you click a menu item from a program’s menu bar, the keyboard shortcut equivalent may display to the right of that command (but not always).
The following list are a combination of keys that achieve the same effect as if the command was selected from the menu. The majority of these shortcuts use the “Ctrl” key (which stands for: Control) and another letter.
To achieve these shortcuts, you must hold down the Ctrl key and press another key at the same time.
The following shortcuts will work on file folders, word processors, Internet text and text boxes:
Ctrl+A= Select All (everything in a window)
Ctrl+C= Copy
Ctrl+X= Cut
Ctrl+V= Paste
Ctrl+Z= Undo Mistakes
Ctrl+Y= Redo Mistakes
Delete= Delete highlighted word(s) or computer file(s)
The following will only work in word processors:
Ctrl+B= Bold Text
Ctrl+I= Italic Text
The following will work in word processors and Internet browsers:
Ctrl+O= Open a document/Internet file
Ctrl+N= New document/window
Ctrl+T= New browser Tab
Ctrl+S= Save the document/Internet page
The following will only work in word processors and Internet text boxes. Many people don’t know about these keys. These allow you to navigate a line of text faster than using the mouse:
Home= Jumps to the beginning of the current line
End= Jumps to the end of the current line
The following will work in any word processor and Internet text boxes:
Ctrl+F= Find text within a page
Ctrl+P= Print
FYI: Internet text boxes are also known as “text fields”. They look like long rectangular boxes.